Negotiations with the treasury fail, and until 1 P.M., nurses in Israeli hospitals will only work in emergency rooms and intensive care wards; state to ask district labor court to order nurses to return to work.

Nurses have left their hospital wards at 9 A.M. for four hours on Tuesday, apart from emergency rooms and intensive care wards. The National Association of Nurses chairwoman Ilana Cohen announced the move on Monday night, after negotiations with the Finance Ministry over working conditions broke down.

Alas ! Since the time of Florence Nightingale, an immortal soul, &
one of the finest specimens of humans anywhere in the world,much water
has flowed through the Volga. But those days of,to do your duty,no
matter what have passed,& people demand their rights together with
the burden they carry ,day & night: come rain or sunshine, Perhaps a
good idea would be to let those ministers to spend just one week in a
year to work in hospital wards,there's nothing better & more useful
than bringing down those ministers from their high perch on the Olympus !

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